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Chapter 160 Zhang Yimou's Dilemma
Early in the morning of April 4, three men walked into a breakfast shop.

One of them had thin cheeks, protruding cheekbones, and deep bags around his eyes, and he seemed to have not slept well.

But his eyes were very bright, he was very talkative and in good spirits.

The two people behind him, one was tall and thin with long hair, and the other was shorter and fatter with many pimples on his face.

These three people are Zhang Yi and his two friends, Li Jinsong and Wang Bin.

They ordered some food and found a seat to sit down.

Li Jinsong, who has long hair, asked, "What do you think of the idea I mentioned yesterday?"

Zhang Yi shook his head and said, "I think the story of a simple swordsman is too small and cannot meet the needs of a blockbuster."

Wang Bin took a sip of tea and complained, "Since you already have an idea, don't hide it.

Speak up sooner rather than later so we can perfect this idea together.

He Ping's Heroes of Heaven and Earth has already started filming, and Xu Ke's Legend of Zu is almost done in post-production.

Time waits for no one. Since you have decided to make a commercial blockbuster, you must seize the time. "

On March 3, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and its box office subsequently doubled, exceeding 25 million US dollars in North America alone.

This double harvest of awards and box office has stimulated domestic film investors and directors.

Zhang Weiping of New Picture was also interested, and he immediately encouraged Zhang Yi to make a commercial film.

Zhang Yi also wanted to make a lot of money, so he found his old friends Li Jinsong and Wang Bin.

Four years ago, the three of them worked on a martial arts script together and wanted to invite Jackie Chan to act in it, but he refused.

After the boss brought breakfast, Zhang Yimou said, “Although Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was successful, it still has a petty air.

I think commercial blockbusters should have a grand structure and grand scenes.

In this regard, Zhou Xiaowen and Cheng Kaige have already demonstrated it to us.”

Li Jinsong frowned and asked, "Do you want to film the story of Jing Ke assassinating Qin?"

Zhang Yi took a bite of the stew and said, "To be precise, I really like the story of General Fan cutting off his head."

The General Fan who was beheaded refers to Fan Yuqi.

In order to gain the trust of Ying Zheng, Fan Yuqi offered his own head as a token of his loyalty.

Zhang Yi continued, "What kind of mentality did Fan Yuqi have to offer his own head?
What we are pursuing here is the word "righteousness".

What exactly is righteousness?
This is a question I have been thinking about for some time.

We can use the story of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin Shi Huang to shoot grand war scenes, describe the beautiful world of martial arts, and create real heroic characters.

This is how we demonstrate the true justice of the world."

Wang Bin was about to speak when he saw Zhang Yi raised his hand and stared at the TV in the breakfast shop.

He looked up and saw that the TV was replaying last night's Focus Interview.

“How much economic energy can a TV series bring?

Recently, the hit youth idol drama "Full House" has given the answer - it not only made Ludao a "romantic capital" where domestic and foreign tourists rushed to check in, but also made our domestically produced Jinpeng Fuyao MP3 popular.

According to experts' estimates, the economic benefits created by "Full House" may exceed 300 billion.

What is the mystery behind this? Let us explore it together. "

After listening to the program's opening introduction, Zhang Yi and the other two were instantly attracted and stared at the TV screen.

An ordinary, thin, dark-skinned vendor appeared on the TV screen.

Subtitles: Egret Island Zengcuoan, Chen Haiqing.

"I used to be a fisherman, supporting my family of five by fishing," said Chen Haiqing. "After I quit fishing, I lost my livelihood and my life became very difficult. I had to scrape together money to pay for my children's tuition."

Narrator: In order to support his family, after retiring from fishing, Chen Haiqing set up a stall in Zengcuoan, specializing in selling shell ornaments.

His business is very slow, with daily sales not exceeding 50 yuan.

After Full House aired, everything changed.

In the TV series, the male protagonist played by Zheng Jing gave the female protagonist a shell necklace and said a line: "Shells are the tears of the sea."

Just this one line made Ludao's shell ornaments popular.

Chen Haiqing set up the stall. His weather-beaten face was filled with a happy smile, revealing his yellow teeth.

"Now it's better, I can sell at least 3000 yuan a day, and sometimes even tens of thousands.

What I am most grateful for is the drama Full House and Zheng Jing, thank them!"

The scene changed and the head of a travel agency in Ludao was interviewed.

"After the broadcast of Full House, our travel agency has been operating at full capacity for the past half month, with too many orders to fulfill."

Then, the Ludao Culture and Tourism Bureau gave a speech.

"In the past half month, the number of tourists visiting Ludao has tripled, and the number of foreign tourists has increased tenfold year-on-year.

According to the order volume, the number of tourists will continue to grow rapidly in the next one or two months.

Thanks to the Full House crew, this is a development opportunity for Ludao.

Next, we will improve the infrastructure, provide personnel training, and focus on both hardware and services, striving to provide tourists with a satisfactory travel experience.”

After the Culture and Tourism Bureau finished speaking, several more foreign tourists were interviewed.

"Full House is so good! My bestie and I flew from Goryeo to Ludao just to check in here! Jung Kyung Oppa, we love you!"

"I'm from Singapore. I came to Ludao specifically to try some satay noodles and sea cucumber jelly."

"I'm from Malaysia. Not only do I want to eat delicious food, I also want to stay in Full House for a night, but unfortunately I can't book a room."

The narrator continued: "A hit TV series can change the tourism landscape of a city and the fate of ordinary people. Changes are not only happening on Lu Island. In Suzhou, a battle is also underway."

The picture shows the factory of Suzhou Jinpeng Technology, where MP3 players are being assembled.

Jing Yidan, the host of Focus Interview, appeared and said, "Full House has made not only travel popular, but also the Legend of the Phoenix MP3.

One month after this MP3 was launched on the market, sales had reached 92 units.

The reservation orders have been scheduled for one month later.

In addition, Jinpeng Technology has opened up channels in Japan, Korea and other places, and is about to export abroad.

Today we specially came to Jinpeng Technology's factory in Suzhou to interview Li Fuzhen, the head of Jinpeng Technology.

Ask her to talk about her feelings about Full House and her views on our country’s manufacturing industry.”

Jing Yidan talked as she walked, and soon came to an office where Li Fuzhen was sitting in a suit.

The interview officially begins.

Seeing these scenes, Li Jinsong sighed: "Zheng Jing is treated like Yangshi's own son.

The Focus Interview praised Full House from big to small, from point to surface.

It also lists various detailed data.

Even though I have never watched the TV series, after reading the previous reports, I think Full House is amazing and I want to watch it.”

Zhang Yi didn't say anything, so Wang Bin said, "If you were so awesome, you could also be reported by Yangshi like this.

A TV series brings in nearly 300 billion in economic benefits.

How can the country not pay attention to it?
Besides, Zheng Jing already has official connections."

As if to echo Wang Bin's words, Li Fuzhen also praised Zheng Jing on TV.

“What attracts me most about Zheng Jing is not his appearance, but his inner talent and personality.

He always has many forward-looking ideas and is able to execute them.

Before the production of Full House, Zheng Jing and I had already agreed to use this drama to promote our MP3.

Zheng Jing also said that he wanted to promote Chinese cities and boost urban tourism.

Jing Yidan grasped the point and asked, "In other words, before Full House was aired, Zheng Jing thought this drama would be a big hit?"

Li Fuzhen smiled and said, "That's right, and what's even more incredible is that I believe him.

We have a large stock of Fuyao MP3s, which is one of the reasons why we can sell 92 units a month.”

Jing Yidan said, "If Full House doesn't become popular, there might be problems with all the stock you have."

"Nothing will go wrong." Li Fuzhen said confidently: "Some things may sound crazy, but they will definitely happen.

I believe Zheng Jing can do it, and he believes I can do it too.”

After hearing this interview, Wang Bin said: "No wonder so many people on the Internet are shipping Zheng Jing and Li Fuzhen's CP. Seeing Li Fuzhen's eyes light up when he mentioned Zheng Jing, I also ship it."

Li Jinsong suggested: "Director Zhang, don't you want to make a commercial blockbuster?

This time we have to succeed and not fail. How about going to Zheng Jing for cooperation?

He has good acting skills and image, as well as capital and connections.

And like you, we are both from the Northwest Circle."

Zhang Yi was very excited when he heard Li Jinsong's suggestion.

His current situation is not good.

On the one hand, the award-winning films made over the years have been criticized at home for winning awards by selling out the country. On the other hand, the box office of art films is getting worse and worse, especially last year's "Happy Times".

This movie didn't win any awards and it wasn't a box office success.

The film was released during the Lunar New Year holiday and actually made Feng Xiaogang famous.

In February this year, Zhang Yi went to Australia to shoot a commercial and was involved in a scandal with model Wang Haizhen.

Zhang Yi is not Zheng Jing. After this scandal broke out, he was severely criticized by the outside world.

While directing the dance drama "Raise the Red Lantern", he had a conflict with Chen Qigang, which was exposed in the media.

If we were to say who among the big domestic directors has been criticized the most and harshly, it would definitely be Zhang Yi.

In order to criticize him, experts held a special meeting to discuss the issue.

The reason for this is that Zhang Yi has no circle of friends.

His circle was originally supposed to be the Northwest circle, but the Northwest circle declined, and Zhang Yimou himself did not take the initiative to manage it.

Many things cannot be settled just by Zhang Weiping's new pictures.

In comparison, although Brother Cheng Kai has also been criticized, he belongs to the Beijing circle and has always been praised.

So many people feel that although Cheng Kai only has one movie, Farewell My Concubine, his status in the circle seems to be higher than that of Zhang Yi.

For Zhang Yimou, his transformation into commercial films this time is indeed very crucial.

In the original time and space, in order to ensure the hero's success, Zhang Yi personally went to the United States to invite Li Lianjie to perform.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Yi said, "Let's wait until we have finished writing the script, and then we can talk to Mr. Zheng. He takes the script very seriously."

As soon as he finished speaking, his cell phone rang.

When he picked it up and took a look, a surprised smile immediately appeared on Zhang Yi's face.

This call was from Zheng Jing.

(End of this chapter)